Muszynski expected to see a couple hundred dollars in his account, but a 17-digit number that rivals even the national debt confronted him instead.
Man Charged $23,148,855,308,184,500, $15 Fee - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR Manchester
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OK, it’s a cute line, but the national debt is ~$11 trillion. It goes on to say he could have spent that much to buy all of Bank of America. That would cost closer to $200 billion.
I know journalists hate math, and these are huge numbers, but really? This isn’t that hard. I failed trigonometry for goodness’ sake.
(via jamiek)
If I were a betting man, I would say that $23 quadrillion dollars is closer to “all of the money in the world” (I’m not speaking hyperbolically, either) than “the U.S. national debt”. And as for BoA, he could have bought it 115,000 times over. To that amount of money the cost of BoA is like the cost of a pack of Wrigley’s gum to a lottery check for $25,000.
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